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Standard_ND40rs_v2

Compare Linux and Windows pay-as-you-go, savings plan, reserved, and Spot pricing for this VM size across Azure regions, with available hardware specifications and series metadata.

vCPUs
40
Memory
672 GB
Architecture
x64
Priced regions
5

Region pricing

Linux Pay as you go hourly rates, sorted from lowest to highest. Monthly estimates use 730 hours.

5 priced regions

Cheapest published price

East US ,  West US 2

eastus ,  westus2

$22.0320

per hour, Linux Pay as you go

$16,083.36 estimated monthly

Operating system
Pricing model
Linux Pay as you go hourly prices for Standard_ND40rs_v2 by Azure region, including each region's percentage above the cheapest price. Use a column heading button to change the sort order.
#Est. monthlyVs. cheapest
1
East US Cheapest
 eastus $22.0320 $16,083.36 0%
2
West US 2 Cheapest
 westus2 $22.0320 $16,083.36 0%
3
South Central US
southcentralus $26.4380 $19,299.74 +20%
4
West Europe
westeurope $27.5260 $20,093.98 +24.94%
5
Southeast Asia
southeastasia $30.4920 $22,259.16 +38.4%

Vs. cheapest shows how each region compares with the lowest available public price. Prices are shown in USD and may vary by availability, capacity, and agreement.

SKU identity and primary specs

Canonical Resource SKUs fields and the most commonly compared capabilities.

How to read this VM size name

Each segment of Standard_ND40rs_v2 encodes a specific attribute. The Standard_ prefix is omitted from the breakdown below.

N
Family — N-family size series
D
Subfamily — AI training and inference optimized
40
vCPUs — 40 vCPUs in the base size
r
Additive feature — Includes an RDMA (InfiniBand) secondary network
s
Additive feature — Compatible with any Premium SSD type
_v2
Version — Generation 2 of this series
Microsoft naming guide
ARM SKU name
Standard_ND40rs_v2
Size
ND40rs_v2
Series
NDv2 Series
Maximum data disks
8
Maximum network interfaces
8
GPU count
8

Feature flags

8 GPUAccelerated networkingRDMAPremium storage

Static capabilities

Only allowlisted values that were present and identical across every regional record for this SKU are included.

Accelerated networking
True
Available vCPUs
40
Cached disk bytes
1099511627776
CPU architecture
x64
GPUs
8
Hyper-V generations
V2
Maximum data disks
8
Maximum network interfaces
8
Memory (GB)
672
OS VHD size MB
1047552
Premium storage
True
RDMA
True
Resource volume MB
2969600
Uncached disk bytes/sec
1200000000
Uncached disk IOPS
80000
vCPUs
40
vCPUs per core
1